Summary:
The Double Chooz experiment measures precisely the anti-electron-neutrino flux from Chooz reactor cores in Ardennes, using two large liquid-scintillator detectors located at distances of about 400m and 1000m. From this measurement, the value of the third neutrino-oscillation angle, theta_13, can be determined. It is one of the most important parameters in the neutrino research in the current decade.

French member :
A. Cabrera, J. Dawson, M. Fallot, D. Franco, V. Fisher, H. de Kerret, T. Lasserre, G. Mention, M.Pequignot, A. Tonazzo, M. Vivier

Japanese member :
M. Kuze, T. Hara, M. Ishitsuka, T. Kawasaki, F. Suekane, T. Sumiyoshi

References:
[1] Y. Abe et al. (Double Chooz collraboration), arXiv:1406.7763 (submitted to JHEP).
[2] Y. Abe et al. (Double Chooz collraboration), Phys. Lett. B735 (2014) 51-56.
[3] Y. Abe et al. (Double Chooz collraboration), Phys. Lett. B723 (2013) 66-70.
[4] Y. Abe et al. (Double Chooz collraboration), Phys. Rev. D 86 (2012) 052008.
[5] Y. Abe et al. (Double Chooz collraboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012) 131801.

Website:
http://doublechooz.in2p3.fr/
http://dchooz.titech.jp.hep.net/

Summary:
A mandatory milestone in view of any future long baseline experiment is an industrial prototyping of the assumed detector and its experimental characterization. WA105 is aiming concrete prototyping effort of double-phase liquid argon TPC towards the envisioned large-scale detectors world wide, and an accompanying campaign of measurements aimed at assessing the systematic errors that will be affecting their intended physics programs based on various detector technologies.

French member :
J. Dumarchez, L. Agostino, D. Autiero, S. Bolognesi, J. Dawson, I. de Bonis, D. Duchesneau, V. Galymov, C. Giganti, J. Marteau, E. Mazzucato, T. Patzak, E. Pennachio, H. Pessard, B. Popov, A. Tonnazzo, G. Vasseur, M. Zito

Japanese member :
T. Hasegawa, S. Kasai, Y. Kuromori, T. Nakadaira, S. Narita, K. Sakashita, L. Zambelli

References:
[1] L.Agostino et al. (The LBNO-DEMO (WA105) Collaboration) arXiv:1409.4405
[2] S.K.Agarwalla et al. (The LAGUNA-LBNO Collaboration) JHEP 05 (2014) 094

Website:
http://lbnodemo.ethz.ch:8080/Plone

Summary:
The knowledge of the neutrino interaction cross-section is one of the largest and most complicated systematics for present and future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. As an example, LBNF aims at an impressive total systematic uncertainty of 1%, while the uncertainties due to neutrino cross-section in T2K are today larger than 5%.
The aim of this project is to exploit the data from the T2K near detectors (ND280, INGRID) to improve the precision on neutrino interaction modeling. Moreover a dedicated water scintillator detector (WAGASCI) is being constructed to be installed on the same beamline.

French member :
S. Bolognesi, M. Buizza Avanzini, O. Drapier, J. Dumarchez, S. Emery, C. Giganti, M. Gonin, J. Imber, T. Mueller, B. Popov, M. Zito

Japanese member :
T. Tsukamoto, N.Chikuma, J. Harada, T. Hayashino, Y. Hayato, F. Hosomi, K. Kin, T. Kobayashi, T. Koga, A. Minamino, T. Nakaya, Y. Seiya, K. Yamamoto, M. Yokoyama

References:
[1] T2K Collaboration, Phys.Rev. D91 (2015) 7, 072010
[2] L.Alvarez-Ruso, Y.Hayato, J.Nieves, New J.Phys. 16 (2014) 075015

Website:
http://t2k-experiment.org/